Sporting Chance
By Gary Larson
ACROSS
1 Model in the Beach
Boys' "Fun, Fun, Fun"
6 "Nightmare" street
9 Middles
15 Demonstrating skill
19 Subtle glows
20 Wasikowska of
"Damsel"
21 Allergic outburst
22 Hudson Bay nation
23 *Grizzly, for one
25 *Olaf II of Norway,
notably
27 Ornamental vase
28 Earthly
30 MLB Hall of Famer
Fox and journalist Bly
31 — a soul
32 Va. winter hours
34 Genesis twin
35 Hose clamp tightener
37 More klutzy
40 Prepare, as a contract
45 Like some dorms
46 *It goes up in cold
weather
48 Sound of shock
49 Sharply hit baseball
51 Relax, maybe
52 Wolf down
54 Guru's residence
56 Pool concern
57 Loses steam
60 Claim no longer
allowed on cigarettes
62 Fortune
64 Show with constant
cliff-hangers
66 Cell division
68 NL Central club 69 *Nickname for Joe
DiMaggio
73 Words of
understanding
75 Uses, as a scale
77 Candy bar with a
Nordic name
78 Self-reproach
80 Thinks
82 Played really badly
85 Comic book artist
86 Mentally assimilate
88 A musician usually has
a good one
90 Originally called
91 Bête —
92 Willing to listen (to)
93 *The sun will
eventually be one
97 Button alternative
98 Posse carriers
101 Max Ernst, for one
102 True
104 Yearn
106 Eye, to a poet
107 Pickup relatives,
briefly
108 Condemnation
111 Zip one's lip
114 "Rugrats" dad
117 *ICBM booster until
1987
120 They're on the same side ... and a hint to the answers to starred clues
122 Pizzazz
123 Spiritualist Deepak
124 Bagpiper's topper
125 Past pudgy
126 Target of a military
press
127 "Dear Evan —": 2015
musical
128 Mahershala of
"Moonlight"
129 Grown-up efts
DOWN
1 Perfume that sounds
forbidden
2 VP under Jefferson
3 Par-3 choice, often
4 Not even rare?
5 Insurance that covers
dams?
6 Manicurist's board
7 Yarn spinner
8 Dark area on the moon
9 Surf board/kayak
hybrid
10 Yellowfin tuna
11 Response to goo
12 Slugger's creation
13 Shades
14 "I'm — to hear from
you!"
15 Smoothie fruit
16 Cheese on crackers
17 Telescope part
18 To this day
24 Docking place
26 Result of one too
many, maybe
29 Rookie, briefly
31 "I can't agree to this"
33 Scrabble piece
35 Going places?
36 *Kipling's Shere Khan
is one
37 Author Sheehy
38 Relaxed
39 Airline with an allkosher menu
41 Turkish bigwigs
42 *"Virtuous Woman"
reggae singer
43 Solheim Cup team
44 Fluoride-in-water
meas.
45 Cat's weapons
47 Little trickster
50 Confirms, as a
password
53 Sub
54 China —: showy bloom 55 Use for preservation,
as wine barrels
58 Takes off
59 Pass rusher's stat
61 Small intake
63 Attacks
65 Story line
67 Singer Ed featured in the 2019 film "Yesterday"
70 "Just kidding!"
71 Place for a pad
72 Modern Persians
74 — throat
76 Utopias
79 Knowledge of spiritual
matters
81 Bareilles of "Waitress"
83 Without ice
84 Understanding
86 Quote from Homer
87 2012 Facebook event,
for short
89 Overhaul
94 Sunbather's pride
95 Poke fun at
96 Best Supporting
Actress before Ingrid
99 Merit
100 Discolor by burning
101 Military alert state
103 Jack of "Some Like It
Hot"
105 To-do
107 It was added to create an everyday quintet in 1990
108 Tick off
109 Series finale: Abbr.
110 Huff and puff
112 R&B great James
113 Ring at a wedding
114 State of suppressed
worry
115 Reason to cram
116 List for a versatile tool
117 Talk acronym
118 Mil. mess duties
119 Before, poetically
121 Presidential nickname
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